[R] (a) R capacity and (b) sorting cases in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:

> 1. I have a .txt file that has no more than 10 variables and about 3.5
> MILLION cases.
> Can R handle so many cases or should I not even try?

That's only about 300Mb.  On a >=4Gb RAM machine it should be fine, 
especially if you read it in carefully (not just use read.table without 
any options).

> 2. How do I sort cases (e.g., alphabetically) in R and then save the
> sorted results in a new file?

?sort
?write

>
> Thank you!
> Dimitri
>
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